xv, 489 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-455) and indexes

Machine generated contents note: Introduction I -- I Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective I2 -- 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and -- Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts 34 -- Doctores puerorum 34 -- Tabula, carta, salterium 36 -- lanua 44 -- lanua: its origins and early character 45 -- lanua's early prevalence in Italy 48 -- Other early manuscripts of lanua: the character and development of -- the text before the fifteenth century 50 -- The later development of lanua 55 -- 3 The secondary grammar curriculum 64 -- The ancient and medieval background 64 -- The twelfth century and the invention of secondary grammar 69 -- The thirteenth century and the emergence of a distinctive Italian approach 82 -- The fourteenth century and the rise of the vernacular 98 -- The fifteenth century: an era of failed reform 124 -- Conclusion '17 -- 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: -- the story of a canon I73 -- Major and minor authors 173 -- The Dark Ages: decline and renaissance of the classics 174 -- The tenth and eleventh centuries: the ascendant classics 179 -- The twelfth century: the classical apogee 185 -- The thirteenth century: revolution -- The fourteenth century: counter-revolution -- The fifteenth century: tenacious traditions and new fashions -- The minor authors -- Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- The Latin classics -- Lucan, Claudian, Seneca the Tragedian -- Valerius Maximus, Statius and Horace -- Ovid, Persius,Juvenal, Terence, Vergil and Sallust -- Cicero -- The late fifteenth century and the triumph of humanism -- Conclusion -- 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance -- Italian schools -- Glossing between the lines: the struggling pupil -- The role of the vernacular -- Word order -- Interlinear Latin synonyms -- Grammatical analysis -- Glossing in the margins: the triumph of philology over morality -- Rhetorical figures -- Grammar -- Mnemonic verses -- Geography -- History -- Mythology -- Paraphrase -- Authorities -- Introductory philosophy -- Introductory rhetorical analysis -- Introductory and accompanying material -- Probationespennae, drawings and colophons -- Accessus -- Metric analysis -- Sententiae -- Allegory -- School glosses and learned commentaries: tradition and adaptation in -- reading Boethius's Consolation -- 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus -- The secondary syllabus as an integrated curriculum -- Grammar and rhetoric -- Rhetoric and style in the Italian grammar syllabus before the -- Renaissance: the force of tradition -- Rhetoric and style in the grammar curriculum during the fifteenth -- century: innovation triumphant -- Conclusion -- Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript -- of Ianua -- Appendix II - A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua -- Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule -- Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors -- produced in Italy and now found in -- Florentine libraries -- Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine -- libraries examined and included or eliminated as -- Italian school grammars -- Appendix VI Authorities cited explicitly in manuscripts of -- major school authors in Florentine libraries -- Bibliography -- Index of manuscripts -- General index

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